Wood architecture
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Timber tower: Finland's first wooden high-rise wins the Wood Prize
An energy-efficient trio of multi-storey timber-frame flats in the Jyväskylä suburb of Kuokkala have won this year's Wood Prize, awarded by Finland's Wood Information Centre.
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Hot stuff: a Chilean house draws on its volcanic landscape
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Into the woods: a timber-clad Swiss home brings the outside in
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Kengo Kuma’s hen house in Mexico rules the roost
The latest architectural addition to the Casa Wabi Foundation is a chicken coop like no other
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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WISA Wooden Design Hotel, Helsinki
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A new Wenzhou concept store for menswear label Atelier by Fapai makes use of China’s discarded wood
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Playfully transparent roof defines German Glass House escape
The Glass House by Sigurd Larsen, set amid nature outside Berlin, is an unconventional country home with a distinctive transparent roof
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Highlands house gets a radical extension
We celebrate Brown & Brown Architects' elevating intervention at a traditional Highlands house in Scotland
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Aslak Haanshuus Arkitekter designs a forest-facing villa in Norway
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Writer’s cabin in Madrid offers room of one’s own
The Writer’s Cabin in north Madrid juxtaposes curving wooden bookshelves against the simple lines of the frame
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Right angle: we pine for this timber cabin in Norway
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Matteo Thun’s latest design in Switzerland blends tradition and modernity
A private house in the Swiss mountains, designed by Milanese architect Matteo Thun, bridges traditional typologies of the region with a modern aesthetic and the latest home technologies
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Optimise your living space with this modular Finnish cabin design
A collaboration between architecture studio Puisto and design companies Made By Choice and Protos Demos, Space of Mind is a contemporary modular Finnish cabin providing a much needed opportunity to pause, think and make the most of our home experience
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Wave House by Seppo Mäntylä is a Finnish log house with a twist
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A timber house in a Japanese forest brings a couple closer to their family
A couple's new home in a forest in Okayama, next door to their family, has been designed by Osaka based architect Tsubasa Iwahashi with equal parts of togetherness and independence
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Corten protects a family house from the extreme environment of Chilean Patagonia
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Atelier Ordinaire's French countryside retreat challenges typologies
A holiday home with tailor made interiors pieces by Stattmann Furniture balances between a boutique, private retreat and a larger group escape in the French countryside, courtesy of Strasbourg-based architecture studio, and alumn, Atelier Ordinaire
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Touch wood: A449 Architects convert a 1930s Scottish bungalow
By Caroline Ednie Last updated
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Davide Macullo’s artistic timber house in the Swiss Alps
In a small village in Switzerland architect Davide Macullo has created an artistic response to the landscape through architecture with a timber house, a new addition to his Swisshouse series of houses in the Calanca Valley
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Explore Guillermo Acuña's modern interpretation of a traditional Chilean lodge
Riñihue House by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is an ode to timber construction, as well as a picturesque retreat in the leafy countryside of Chile
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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A modern villa hides in Soulac-sur-Mer's peaceful pine forests
A minimalist wooden villa in the French west coast is inspired by Modernist houses and Brazilian architecture, explains its architect, Paris based Nicolas Dahan
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Wood Awards 2021 winners: limber use of timber in architecture and design
From smart products and bespoke commissions to private homes and cultural buildings, we present the Wood Awards 2021 winners
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest house
An undulating wooden structure makes for a striking guest house, designed by Canadian architecture studio Partisans, in the grounds of a Southern Ontario home
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1960s bungalow renovation cuts cinematic dash in Belgium
House BPB, created by Belgian architect David Bulckaen, is the imaginative reintepretation of a 1960s bungalow into a dark, mysterious, contemporary house inspired by the movie A Single Man
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Minecraft inspires architects to design real-world modular cabin
The Minecraft egaming phenomenon has prompted architects JaK Studio to design HOM3 – a modular cabin for flexible use, inspired by Minecraft house ideas
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Twin Chilean cabins win Best Retreat: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
Cabañas Maralto, a duo of holiday cabins in Chile designed by Croxatto & Opazo, scoop a Wallpaper* Design Award 2021
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Saunders Arkitektur designs masterful modernist micro-house
Norway-based practice Saunders Arkitektur crafts finely detailed prefabricated cabin on the Bergen docks, launching hand-crafted, modernist micro-house
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Best Music Venue: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
The Floating Music Hub in Cape Verde, by NLÉ, scoops